Tag " Development"

Humans love shiny. And there’s nothing more shiny to a programmer than a brand new version of a tool used every day. Here at Mystic we use IRC as our primary mode of communication and project collaboration, and several of us have chosen Weechat. Recently we wrote about receiving irc notifications from Weechat over ssh, [...]

Our initial plugin for IDEA that talked to MysticPaste.com was fairly simple, offered no feedback to the user that anything happened. I spent some time trying to find out a method of achieving unobtrusive notification that the paste was successful. On initial glance at the API, nothing jumped out except for Messages, and StatusBar.

From the beginning of building out Mystic Paste, the vision was to have multiple interfaces to allow ubiquitous use of the pastebin. With the variety of plugins we’ve got out now including Eclipse, IDEA, VIM, and NetBeans, that vision is definitely here. If you reached this link looking for the plugin, look no further, the [...]

Most of our developers got an email weeks ago from Sun about the JavaFX Coding Challenge. We’ve got a great idea that we are working on implementing, and this contest just gives us some extra incentive to plow through and get it done in short order. The only caveat with the submission in this contest, [...]

In our previous post, we showed you how to use socat, ssh, and some fancy footwork to pipe a UDP-based request coming from Net::Growl, through a TCP-based reverse-proxy ala SSH, and back to the Mac as a UDP-request straight to Growl. What happens if you’ve got more than one person wanting to do the same [...]

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of remote work using IRC. And due to the heavy use of best of breed tools under OSX and Linux, we find ourselves working in a shell a lot of the day, along with our IDE. We like to keep in the Flow state for as much of [...]

So… you should now have a fairly good understanding of how to put Wicket together with Spring and Hibernate, creating your DAOs and services and putting that code through the test gauntlet. We can see that our foundation is rock solid… but we’re missing the eye-candy… so let’s hop over to the UI and show [...]

At Mystic, we love our technology, and we love to evangelize the best of the best. We’ve been brewing a cauldron of new ideas, and the latest, is a series of articles surrounding building actual applications with the technology we love, and sharing how it was all done with you. Our first feature: 5 days [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what the architects who designed the system powering that big farm of servers, Eugene Ciurana has written the guide for you. At just shy of 6 pages, with a wealth of great, easy to understand diagrams, it is a quick but informative read. I must admit however, that I’m a bit [...]

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of different types of development. It’s not all web development. I found myself writing a simple document parser that takes files uploaded by automated process, processes them by adding to a database, and finishes. One of the components we used to tie everything together, the Spring Framework, it’s great for that.